A GRIEVING Stonehouse man claims NHS staff failed his dying father. Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust has launched an investigation after Ian Rice lodged an official complaint. He claims his 70-year-old father Godfrey Rice, of Paganhill, Stroud, was
MCFLY fans from Stroud were starstruck when they met their favourite band, thanks to a competition run by the SNJ. The girls, Katie Davis, Carly Noble, Jess Martin and Lauren McDonnell, all 16, won front row tickets to the bands concert in Cardiff last
FOREST GREEN have been handed the perfect tonic ahead of this Saturday's FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round clash at home to Dagenham & Redbridge (3pm), with the news that goalkeeper Ryan Clarke has successfully had his contentious red card rescinded
Gerrard League Stroud Men's 1st XI 3 Neath 4 A FANTASTIC fight back saw Stroud go close to turning over a 4-1 deficit against Neath on Saturday. Earlier, Neath unexpectedly took the lead, but. Stroud were quick to respond, however, and deservedly equalised
FOREST GREEN have been handed the perfect tonic ahead of this Saturday's FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round clash at home to Dagenham & Redbridge (3pm), with the news that goalkeeper Ryan Clarke has successfully had his contentious red card rescinded
WILLIAM Moseley's life is about to rocket into the stratosphere. Having finished filming a while back, the 18-year-old is on the cusp of the sort of fame that only rounds of publicity for huge blockbuster movies can bring. Luckily, the former Wycliffe
URGENT work to re-build the culverts running underneath Nailsworth could result in the town's fountain being returned to it's original home near Fountain Street. The culverts below the A46 entrance to Nailsworth are so corroded that vital work is required
THIS Sunday's Stroud Half-Marathon will be waved off at 10am by Nailsworth's Olympic marathon hero Dan Robinson. More than 2,000 runners will be taking part in this year's event from Marling, making it by far the biggest event of its kind in Gloucestershire
HORRIFIED residents watched as out of control hounds ran riot over a Slad nature reserve. Members of the Andoversford-based Cotswold Hunt, dressed in red hunting jackets, blew horns as their hounds terrorised wildlife at the Swift Nature Reserve in Swift
Powergen Intermediate Cup THIS was a fairly comfortable win for Stroud against a Berry Hill team, themselves languishing at the bottom of South West 2 West. Stroud were without some key players, but of those pushing for a first team shirt James Sharples
INSTRUCTORS at a Stroud martial arts school are running the town's half-marathon on Sunday to raise money for Cancer Research UK after a student's mother died of the illness in June. Amy Dean, 17, from Horsley, has been attending the Steve Pearson School
A FORMER Archway School pupil was brutally attacked and killed in London at the weekend in what police are calling a homophobic hate-crime. Jody Dobrowski, 24, was found unconscious on Clapham Common early on Saturday morning but died in hospital after
IT was back to business this week for courageous Stroud paramedic Clare Langshaw, who recently returned from a rescue relief mission in earthquake-hit Pakistan. Images of Clare carrying a toddler from the wreckage of a collapsed block of flats were splashed
Computer games, mp3 players and mobile phones are just a few of the coolest toys on offer to modern kids. But at Park Junior School in Stonehouse however, pupils have become engrossed in a more traditional activity - knitting. James Davis went along to
